I made this cards for my cousin, who will have her Confirmation soon. :o)How I made my card...I stamped in black gorgeous quotation on a white cardstock paper panel. Beautiful lettering and quotation!!! :o)Then I heat embossed in clear magnolias on the panel, one by one, that's the safest when I'm heat embossing.Next up was ink blending. I blended the whole panel with Distress Inks, applying colors with gentle pressure. For magnolias, I used handmade stencil. I stamped a magnolia flower on a piece of cardstock paper and cut it out. I used negative as a stencil/mask, which allowed me to blend magnolias with different color.After blending, I glued the panel on a white top folded card base. As a finishing touch, I drew white dots with white gel pen. :o)

I'm very satisfied how my card turned out, hope my cousin will like it too. I will definitely recreate this card in future. :o)

At the bottom of this post you can find card measurements and detailed supply lists for this card. Link to this post will be in a right sidebar (Featured Post), until the Blog Hop ends. :o)

And now to the Blog Hop prize...Our generous Jane will be giving away one stamp set of winner's choice to one lucky winner. All you have to do is leave a comment on all blogs along the Hop for your chance to win.

I went with similar design as on my own card I made in January this year for KBD, Coffee Panda Card. :o)

I printed the cow on a watercolor paper and left the ink set through the night. Next day I colored the cow in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the cow, traced edges with black marker and softened parts with a stylus ball on a soft working mat.

The watercolor paper I use is too thin, so I printed one more sow on a white cardstock paper, colored the cow with black marker, fussy cut her leaving white border around her and glued colored cow over the black one (paper piecing). Thicker. :o)

Then I stamped a sentiment from Paper Smooches 'Chubby Chums' stamp set on a side folded white card base and drew frame with a black fine liner. I glued some 3-D foam on the back of the cow, glued her on the card and my card was finished. :o)

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Due to a lot of Spam in comments and received on my contact e-mail containing disturbing content, I permanently shut down and disabled following via e-mail option from my blog on April 25th 2018 without any prior notice. All data is permanently deleted from service provider (Google FeedBurner). No data is kept neither forwarded to any other party.I've also disabled my Google FeedBurner account.If, for some unfamiliar reason, you are still receiving automatic e-mails containing what I post on my blog, contact me as soon as possible. I'll contact Google immediately and report the issue.Thank you for your attention.MilkaUpdate May 27th, 2018
Since disabling a FeedBurner service, I didn't receive any notification from anyone that still receiving automatic e-mails from my blog.

Saturday, April 21, 2018

It's been quiet for a while here on my blog. I had some extra school activities and classes last two weeks, field trip class... I focused on my work and planing school activities and put crafting and blogging aside for a bit. I also start to work in my balcony garden. :o)

Yesterday was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodlesand I made this For You Shaker Card. :o)

I stamped a jar on a rainbow patterned paper and cut it out with scissors (I left a lid uncut). I traced the edges and colored the lid with a black marker. Then I glued acetate sheet on the panel to close a window.

I stamped another jar on a top folded card base, glued 3-D foam on the panel, filled the jar with sequins and glued the rainbow panel on the card base.

Then I stamped another lid on a pink patterned paper, cut it out, glued 3-D foam on the lid and glued it over the black one.

To make card sturdier, I glued a white cardstock paper panel inside the card.

I struggled with a sentiment and had no idea where to put it. Without the sentiment, there was just something missing and didn't like it. Finally I decided to stamp the sentiment directly on the acetate sheet. I fixed some lines with a black fine liner and my card was finished. :o)

As I wasn't sure what I want to do with the image, I left the image until inspiration arrives (I was totally in Rainbow colors for a while :o) ).

Couple days ago, I pulled the image out, as it's totally fitting to our challenge, and finished coloring. I decided to go with similar design as on a card I made last year (here), using same image, quotation and font.

I already had a card layout on my computer from my last year's card, I just moved quotation on the bottom of the card. When I liked a new layout, I printed it out on a white cardsotck paper base.

Then I fussy the watercolored image, traced edges with a black marker, glued the image on the card over the uncolored image and my card was finished. :o)

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Today I'm bringing you a Wrap-up post of my Celebrating 30 days of Pisces 2018 personal challenge, as I finally shared all cards I made during the challenge here on my blog. :o)

Celebrating 30 days of Pisces is my annual personal challenge which takes time in Pisces period. Goal of the challenge is to improve my skills and myself.

This year was the fourth time I took the challenge. It started on February 18th at 6:18 PM and ended on March 20th at 5:15 PM. (CET, UTC +1, Dubrovnik, Croatia).

I love rainbow colors, but don't use them so often on my projects. My challenge this year was to make 20 (or more) cards featuring rainbow colors in Pisces period. Goals of the challenge were to improve my cardmaking skills and to use more rainbow colors on my cards.

I managed to create 19 cards. :o)

I was working on 20th card, going totally out of my comfort zone. Although I think is very good to go out of comfort zone, it's better to give up if you don't like it. So I did with my card. :o)

Among all cards I made, 6 cards were CASEs. I CASEd gorgeous cards from artists whom work I admire and my own cards. I did planned to CASE before I started the challenge, but not more than half of all cards I create.

I'm very satisfied with the challenge and the result. Although I didn't reach number 20 as I planned, I'm not disappointed at all, neither I find this failure. I practiced, incorporated rainbow colors in my projects in various ways, created 19 cards that I like a lot and had a lot of fun. :o)

Thank you all for kind feedback and encouragement during the challenge.♥

After this personal challenge, I feel very encouraged to use Rainbow Colors more often on my cards. Since the challenge ended I created couple Rainbow Colored themed projects (I shared already one, here) and currently working on two more. So, more Rainbow projects on my blog soon. :o)

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